Plastics
What percent of plastic is recycled in the US?
a. 25%
b. 14.3%
c. 6.8%
d. 38.2%
What is c. 6.8%?
What are 3 examples of where toxins come from?
What are pesticides, detergents, herbicides, fertilizers, oil, sewage, and industrial chemicals?
The difference between marine biology and oceanography
Oceanography is the study of physical and biological properties of the sea, marine biology is the scientific study of marine organisms.
What smothers coral and degrades the environment needed by native fish, invertebrates, and limu?
What is invasive algae?
What is the vocab word for : adjective that means describes something (typically plants or a disease) tending to spread prolifically and undesirably or harmfully
What is invasive?
In what year will there be more plastic in the ocean than fish?
What is 2050?
How many oil spills have occurred in the past decade?
A way to control native species
What is native bio control?
The name of the machine used in Kaneohe Bay to get rid of invasive algae.
What is the Super Sucker?
What is the vocab word for: the concentration of toxins in an organism as a result of its ingesting other plants or animals in which the toxins are more widely disbursed.
What is biomagnification?
What is twice the size of Texas? (700,000-15 million square kg)
What do microplastics attract?
What are harmful chemicals?
True or False: half of all plastics ever manufactured have been made in the last fifteen years.
What is TRUE?
Three species that are invasive to Hawaiian habitats.
What is gorilla ogo, mongeese, black-tailed snapper
What is the vocab word for: extremely small pieces of plastic or debris in the environment resulting from the disposal and breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste
What is microplastic?
How many lbs of trash enter the ocean per year?
What is 4billion lbs?
What happens to people that eat fish that have eaten plastic?
What is toxic poisoning?
How many species are affected by plastic? What type of organism is hit the hardest?
What are 700 species? What are seabirds?
How many of the world's marine ecosystems are threatened by invasive species?
What is 84%?
Vocab word for this definition: the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat/ecosystem.
How many sea birds does ocean pollution kill per year?
What is 1 million?
Where do toxic metals come from?
What are industrial and mining activities/waste dumps?
Name two out of the top six countries that pollute the ocean the most?
What is China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand?
Around how much money do invasive species account for in damages ANNUALLY?
What is 1.4trillion dollars?
What is the vocab word for: excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen
What is eutrophication?